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Only if the oil companies are allowed to keep making obscene profits. 100 billion profit in one quarter is inexcusable.
Why, the market sets the price. Did you even bother to read the details in the link?
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Only if the oil companies are allowed to keep making obscene profits. 100 billion profit in one quarter is inexcusable.
So my oil company stocks will be paying higher dividends? Awesome!
So you're good with oil companies making record breaking 100 billion dollar profit per quarter while we are paying so much at the pump?Why, the market sets the price. Did you even bother to read the details in the link?
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So you're good with oil companies making record breaking 100 billion dollar profit per quarter while we are paying so much at the pump?
...So you're good with oil companies making record breaking 100 billion dollar profit per quarter while we are paying so much at the pump?
You best hope it's enough to cover the increased retail costs of energy.
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So you're good with oil companies making record breaking 100 billion dollar profit per quarter while we are paying so much at the pump?
You think they don't control their own prices? really? Of course they change their prices to match or change the market, but their pricing strategy is ther own choice. Nobody is forcing them to keep the prices high enough to reap record profits right now. That is pure greed.It's been proven that when you tax something, you get less of it. What's that going to do with prices? I can't believe you're so fixated on profits when the companies don't control the prices of their products. This BS will likely push some of the small companies out of the business, further reducing supply. Of course that is the intent of you commies.
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Reasonable profit is expected. Price gouging is unethical....
Do you even understand what a shortage means? It is simply a fact that those producing a product that is both in high demand and low supply are going to make large profits. That is basic economics. And there is no 'allow' about it. We could stop them and they will simply cease to exist, foreign companies will fill any gaps and the prices will INCREASE.
It is funny that you think producing and selling a much needed commodity and making a profit is something that the nation should stop and that would be an answer to our high prices. There is zero logic in that position.
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And?Reasonable profit is expected. Price gouging is unethical.
Ethics are always relivant. It's a shame that right wingers don't care about that any more.And?
Where did I say anything about ethics. Your position is still void of logic in any shape or form no matter what ethical riders you want to attach to it. The ethics of the situation are not relevant to the economic realities and are 100 percent subjective. Your claim that it is unethical is meaningless to the facts on the ground.
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Ethics is subjective. YOU demand that it is unethical but you cannot even logically show that to be the case since you cannot set the line where a profit is 'price gouging' in this instance. It is a bald asses assertion backed up by nothing whatsoever. It is notable that you have not even bothered to try yet.Ethics are always relivant. It's a shame that right wingers don't care about that any more.
I'm sure you think that is what a smart person sounds like.Ethics is subjective. YOU demand that it is unethical but you cannot even logically show that to be the case since you cannot set the line where a profit is 'price gouging' in this instance. It is a bald asses assertion backed up by nothing whatsoever. It is notable that you have not even bothered to try yet.
All so you can avoid the point brought up - your position lacks any logic whatsoever. Your straw man is irrelevant - we cannot even get into the ethics of the situation as you cannot address the most basic concepts.
But you continue to cling to your straw man.
evade evade evade.I'm sure you think that is what a smart person sounds like.
You repeating consiracy theories is not making a point. You have made no valid points to address.evade evade evade.
You have not addressed anything whatsoever. You evade every point. And now you hide behind an ad hominem.
It is unsurprising that you do not even try and address any points raised. Hell, you have not even bothered to support your own bald assed assertions. It is rather clear this is nothing but a dem talking point - they said the problem is greedy oil companies and therefore it must be greedy oil companies.
I have a more fuel efficient car than most of you. It won’t start to hurt until it goes over $7 a gallon in Georgia. By then you on the Right will be committing murder over the cost to fuel your big gas guzzler trucks.